Guiding Children's Behavior: Developmental Discipline in the Classroom - Couverture souple

Flicker, Eileen S.; Hoffman, Janet Andron

 
9780807747131: Guiding Children's Behavior: Developmental Discipline in the Classroom

Synopsis

This comprehensive guide to classroom management is also the only book to emphasize observation as the best way to determine developmentally appropriate interventions. By following a process for observing children, educators will learn how to see beyond children’s manifest behavior to focus on their motivations, needs, and interests. Featuring a series of chapters organized by age, from birth through elementary school, this book: Helps teachers to individualize discipline practices, including ways to use the curriculum to prevent and manage challenging behaviors. Offers supportive vignettes and a menu of developmentally appropriate strategies that teachers can choose from. Questions the effectiveness of frequently used discipline methodologies, such as time-outs and coerced apologies. Includes a training module to help teachers, administrators, and parents to work together to create more consistency between home and school. Provides useful forms to keep track of peer interactions, teacher and student self-reflections, parent observations, teacher disciplinary practices, bullying, and more.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eileen S. Flicker has worked as a teacher, child care director, curriculum coordinator, college professor, program developer, and educational and mental health consultant. She currently works in schools where she facilitates differentiated instruction and social skills groups . Janet Andron Hoffman is an educator, teacher-trainer, licensed clinical social worker, consultant, and an adjunct assistant professor in early childhood education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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